Christina Batastini, one of Rhode Island’s best basketball players ever, remembers the days when girls lived their hoop dreams through CYO and town recreation leagues or, if they were lucky, high school, and if really lucky, college. Those days 35 years ago were better than the Dark Ages of the first half of the 20th […]
NCAA women’s basketball
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Women’s NCAA championship TV ratings crush the men’s competition
At its peak, 24 million basketball fans tuned in to watch the women’s championship between Iowa and South Carolina, making it the most-watched basketball game since 2019.
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Police investigating racial harassment of NCAA women’s basketball team in Idaho
Police are investigating reported harassment of the University of Utah women’s basketball team while staying in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, for the NCAA tournament in nearby Spokane, Wash.
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Caitlin Clark’s scoring record reveals legacies of Lynette Woodard and Pearl Moore
The scoring records of two Black American college basketball stars from the 1970s and 1980s are overlooked by the NCAA as Caitlin Clark takes the mantle as women’s scoring champion.